Mexico

The Mexico pinball machine, produced by United Manufacturing Company in 1947, is a single-player, flipperless machine with a "World Places - Music - Dancing" theme, from an era just before flippers arrived in pinball (United's first flipper game, Wisconsin, followed in April 1948).

A notable aspect of the Mexico's gameplay is its use of five balls for a single nickel (five cents), providing players with multiple chances to achieve high scores. The machine also features twelve passive bumpers and four kick-out holes, which allow the ball to exit and re-enter play. These elements contribute to the Mexico's gameplay experience typical of late-1940s flipperless design.

As operators of the period often retrofitted flipperless games like Mexico with flippers after the fact — sometimes in unusual playfield positions — surviving original examples offer insight into pinball just before its most transformative innovation.